The person you see in the above photograph is Kawakado Sayaka. We first met when the university paired us up to go on a trip to Kyoto: several international students were paired with two Japanese students. From there, everyone broke into their teams and the Japanese students lead us around Kyoto, to places they knew [...]
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Bulls Meet World: Host Mother
The person in the above photograph is Sekimoto Tsuneko, the host mother for me while I stayed abroad in Japan. In the photograph, she's celebrating a Japanese holiday, where one eats an uncut role of sushi without speaking. She was the housekeeper in a very gendered Japanese society where despite working a full job, she [...]
Exploring the beauty of England
Hello to everyone from rainy England! The weather here has been going up and down sunlight-wise but now it seems like it finally stabilized at the normal cold, gloomy level. It is, however, does not bother me too much as we all know that there cannot be a pure English experience without being cold and [...]
Welcome Week for Freshers at the University of Exeter
Hello, everyone! This has been an amazing couple of weeks so far here at the University of Exeter! The week of welcome or Freshers Week, as they call it here, was probably one of the most memorable experiences I have ever had! The University of Exeter was committed to giving new students as much information [...]
#BullsMeetWorld: Be a Global Citizen
"Study abroad!!" they said, "It'll be fun!!" they said. And they were right! I would like to believe that a good majority of students come into college at a university saying they would like to study abroad at some point. Unfortunately, many give up on that dream due to thinking there is no way financially [...]
